Louise Bol

My working hours are as follows;

Mondays 9 am-7pm in my Liverpool city centre office ( Water St. L2). This is wheel chair accessible. 

Tuesdays-Thursdays 8am-8pm and Fridays 9am-1pm in my dedicated Southport garden office . 

I currently have availability at various times within these hours, please contact me to discuss.

I am happy to offer bi-weekly appointments or flexible ways of working as I recognise not everyone can attend for therapy 9am-5pm, and not everyone can afford weekly appointment fees. If you have any questions about the practicalities of attending, please contact me to discuss. 

As well as online, phone and in person appointments, I also offer home visits and walk & talk counselling.

Hi, my name is Louise. 

By looking on here for help you've already taken that first, difficult step towards getting support for whatever is troubling you. 

Finding the right therapist/counsellor can be daunting, as I know from personal experience. 

If, after looking at my profile something I say resonates with you and you feel I may be the right counsellor to work with you, contact me for a free, no commitment, 20-minute initial appointment to help you decide.

I'm an experienced CBT therapist and counsellor. Being a person- centred counsellor means that I put you, the client (person), at the centre of our therapeutic relationship. It's your space and time, to be heard and understood. As your counsellor, I'll do all I can to help you in your exploration of whatever issues you bring. 

I'll do this by listening to you carefully, compassionately acknowledging your experiences, and responding with my genuine warmth, honesty, empathy, and acceptance. And without judging you, or what you are saying.

Being understood and accepted in this way will help you feel safe to express your thoughts and feelings and so to begin to deal with your difficulties, to gain insight, and to heal emotionally. I'll be there to encourage, support and guide you on every step of your therapeutic journey. Through this counselling process, it is likely you'll discover your own solutions.

I also offer Cognitive Behavioural Therapy -CBT. The aim of CBT is to help you become more aware of your thought processes, so improve your state of mind. 

In sessions we'll work together collaboratively to identify your goals, thought patterns and behaviours, then we'll look at CBT strategies and tools which we both feel could help with whatever problems are causing you distress. 

I use CBT to help with issues such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, phobias, OCD, stress, worry, sleep problems, trauma, and a range of other issues. 

I am an experienced bereavement counsellor. 

I offer face to face, online, telephone and also outdoors (walk & talk) therapy. 

I am an experienced CBT  (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) therapist, holding a Post Graduate Qualification in CBT. ​I am also an experienced and compassionate person-centred counsellor.

Being able to offer these two therapy approaches, Person-Centred Counselling and CBT, enables me to work with you in a flexible way, to best suit you, and the issues you are dealing with. You can decide how we work together, based on what you are most comfortable with. 

I have a dedicated counselling garden office in Southport which provides a warm, welcoming, and confidential space for us to work together. I also work one day per week in Liverpool in a lovely city centre office (wheelchair accessible).

I offer a free (no commitment) 20 minute initial consultation to discuss ways I am able to help you.

Whatever the difficulty you are experiencing, and however insurmountable it might seem at this moment in time, please don't struggle on alone, do get in touch with me.

If you decide to take up my offer of a free, no commitment, 20 minute initial consultation (Phone, Zoom or in person), we can use this time to discuss how I may be able to help you with whatever issues you are dealing with. This will also give you a chance to decide if you are comfortable opening up and to consider if I am the right counsellor for you.

In our first main 50 minute session we will be exploring your hopes and goals for therapy, discussing how the issues you have brought to therapy affect your day to day life, and considering what your life will look like when these issues are no longer so problematic. We can then make a plan together of ways to tackle these issues, at a pace that is set by you.